Tapping in Ontario

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Here in the Pembroke bush where I normally help out we gathered 70 gallons on Saturday and 25 yesterday. Half of the trees have dried up while others are still going strong. The syrup is quite dark, but still tastes great. We'll gather today and see what the rest of the week brings as it's supposed to freeze well on Thurs. night. We would probably be getting a lot more sap if it wasn't for the few warm days we had last week that caused the bacteria to get into the tap holes. We should be done here for sure by this weekend and wash everything out next week. Meanwhile, I visited my uncle's bush, which is 1.5 hours south of here but a few hundred meters higher in elevation and is on a northeast slope. At 4:00 pm on Sat. many pails were close to running over and by the time we were finished gathering at 8:30 pm, we got 300 gallons from 250 taps and 125 trees. Then on Sunday we gathered 150 gallons. This is his first year making syrup at this location and he has enough trees to easily expand to 800+ taps in the future. Just wondering if anyone else in Ontario (particularly northern Ont.) is still making syrup?